because it was designed for mobile applications using styli?
Concepts like pointer, cursor, etc. don't make sense in that environment. "Dragging" to the edge of the screen won't work because it adds another action, and interfers with useage (i.e. auto scrolling when at the top or bottom of the screen if dragging), not to mention the fact that it adds annother action to be done.
Yes there was at one time a bug that would lose the functioning of address bar. I honestly thought they got that out of the 1.0 but I could be wrong, as I never used it. It has I know for certain been fixed (though it might regress, or it might be a different bug then I experienced) on the 1.1 branch (which honsetly is more 1.01 but I digress). I rarely have trouble with crashes running nightlies and relases tend to be more stable, so perhaps you should try the latest milestone on 1.1?
1) Skinning is tough to do, but so is writing an HTML parser. The skinning will get better though there are a number of projects and bugs dealing with this. 2) It is my understanding that at least some of the probelms involving the address bar were not XUL issues.
I have yet to see a valid bug be ignored on Bugzilla, marked duplicate, yes, assigned to someone who is overloaded and can't handle the bug, yes, get lost in a long flame war, yes, but ignored, no.
Umm but the comments the article made about it not fitting in with with the windows UI were a philisophical dig at mozilla, therefore respond in kind and all that. Truthfully IE has at many times used non standard windows omponents. The Rebar system that allows for the toolbar customizing was most certainly not standard in 4.0 and wasn't available for developers to use for quite some time. The toolbar for IE 3.0 wasn't windows standard at all. As far as the UI being ghastly, well I have trouble seeing that, after all the principle aspects of the UI that I deal with are all clearly pressented (more so then IE). I mean if you want you can grab a skin and make it look IEish. Though All that being said I do use the pinball theme for daily work, but don't have trouble with either classic or modern. What is more important neither have the several friends that I have introduced to Mozilla.
Hmmm the heat has little to do with the electric motors, and much more to do with Air Conditioned Subway cars. The heat in the cars has to go somewhere so it (and some energy involved in moving it) goes out into the tunnels and the stations. Suposedly before A/C the cars were hot but the stations were cool(as one would expect for what is bassicaly a basement.)
It is honestly the worst comecial I have seen in a long time. It reminds me of something from the seventies (though I wasn't alive then). I mean it can do some decent stuff, but at a minimum they should have had a celebrity voiceover (i.e. one of the actors)
Sonar is used all the time in small robots. Radar is fine for distances but it has limits on how close you can be to an object. Soanr travels slower and is better for such things. If you want to see sonar in action some of the autofocusing devices use sonar.
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See? it can be used to play sick games. Ok maybe a bullet qould be cheaper, but inciting troops to comit fratricide is so much more interesting.
I would assume that there are numbers on documentation, bills, etc. Of course some people might not think of that. Indeed some people might not think that thier MSN box did it when the cops say someone at the house was dialing 911, I wonder how many children are getting yelled at for this?
Silly there are no licensed image editors of JPegs, so therefore to actually use a jpeg would be to support the infringement of thier own patent. Lord knows they have no one who could actually implement the code.
How would a 40 kg wolf take down a 1000 kg American Bison?
The answer is pack instinct and teeth. So perhaps the squids hunt in packs (which wouldn't be imposible), or perhaps they just attack weaker smaller, and possibly sickly whales.
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While ICBMs are the ultimate weapon they can't take and hold ground. yes you can threaten planetary destruction but you'd have to control a lot of nukes before you could convince the government to give up the country. With an army (any army) you can take the land, and defend it.
Well the military has put destructive power in the hands of people before it used to be posible to launch the missiles off of a nuclear submarine on captain's orders.It is likely that drones will not be as tightly controlled as nuclear weapons ( do you want the president to expressly approve every time a drone launches a missile? ) Multiple command centers won't help, the problem is not telling the drones what to do, but telling them not to do it, obviusly the drones will have an extensible encryption model so codes can be changed as they are compromised. So how exactly will you tell them to stop what they are doing, a "stop" command is a huge liability if discovered by an enemy.
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FYI, Asimov didn't invent Robot just the word robotics.
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They were never really enforceable anyways, a silly toy of conjecture, but nothing that one could build a system out of. They are soft laws. Full of conflict. I mean a robot cleaning a bathroom is technically denying a job to a human, harming that human. They don't allow for ownership (i.e. a robot sentry could be ordered not to report an intruder). Yes I am aware Asimov tried to deal with these things, but to program a robot like that would restrict it too much.
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I am far less worried about hacking then some people seem to be. What I am worried about is that they will obey commands. I mean what happens when say these are sent against Cuba, but the General/Admiral decides that he really want all of south florida to retire in, and captures it with his drone army. Normally it isn't possible becuase American troops are (suposed to be) loyal to thier country first and not thier officers, but now you are reducing the number of people needed to enable a coup or power grab. Less people is both easier, and more liekly to be sucessful.
Shortcut keys are not proper buttons, and this is a laptop so for much of the time an external mouse is not an option. This is a real and valid concern, and telling someone to "shut up" doesn't adress it in anyway. There are distinct advantages to productivity from using more buttons.
So yes it is a valid concern and yes you will almost certainly be clicking on the right side of the single mousebutton as long as you still use other systems. It is however liveable, at least in apps designed with one mouse button in mind.
Hmm Well there are first off all some serious screen redraw issues. Oh well. I am just uncertain what the advantage over Swing really is. The author mentions that it is easier to create XWT interfaces in XWT then in Swing but well with Borlands JBuilder is it really that hard?
I mean this does not seem like a bad idea. I hope it or something catches on because anything is better then long endless forms that are mangled to do things they were never intended to do.
The mail client is wonderful though. That alone makes it worth a bookmark.
From the article: Let's hope that in setting the policies for its use, we keep in mind the key attribute of the woman embodied in the first Palladium. Athena was the goddess of wisdom. Let us also not forget that Athena fought against the Trojans, so perhaps the statues of wisdom was on the Trojan side, but the incarnation of wisdom was on the greek side
Since it has an actual drive that you can remove and play with yeah it shouldn't be a problem. I like the idea of having upgradable storage, I'm never going to have that many MP3's to really use disks as swapouts
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because it was designed for mobile applications using styli?
Concepts like pointer, cursor, etc. don't make sense in that environment. "Dragging" to the edge of the screen won't work because it adds another action, and interfers with useage (i.e. auto scrolling when at the top or bottom of the screen if dragging), not to mention the fact that it adds annother action to be done.
Bulk mail is about $.20 or less postage if you use all the automation features. http://savepostage.com/ratessda.html
Still I have yet to get penis enlargement mailings in my mailbox.
Yes there was at one time a bug that would lose the functioning of address bar. I honestly thought they got that out of the 1.0 but I could be wrong, as I never used it. It has I know for certain been fixed (though it might regress, or it might be a different bug then I experienced) on the 1.1 branch (which honsetly is more 1.01 but I digress). I rarely have trouble with crashes running nightlies and relases tend to be more stable, so perhaps you should try the latest milestone on 1.1?
1) Skinning is tough to do, but so is writing an HTML parser. The skinning will get better though there are a number of projects and bugs dealing with this.
2) It is my understanding that at least some of the probelms involving the address bar were not XUL issues.
I have yet to see a valid bug be ignored on Bugzilla, marked duplicate, yes, assigned to someone who is overloaded and can't handle the bug, yes, get lost in a long flame war, yes, but ignored, no.
Umm but the comments the article made about it not fitting in with with the windows UI were a philisophical dig at mozilla, therefore respond in kind and all that. Truthfully IE has at many times used non standard windows omponents. The Rebar system that allows for the toolbar customizing was most certainly not standard in 4.0 and wasn't available for developers to use for quite some time. The toolbar for IE 3.0 wasn't windows standard at all. As far as the UI being ghastly, well I have trouble seeing that, after all the principle aspects of the UI that I deal with are all clearly pressented (more so then IE). I mean if you want you can grab a skin and make it look IEish. Though All that being said I do use the pinball theme for daily work, but don't have trouble with either classic or modern. What is more important neither have the several friends that I have introduced to Mozilla.
Hmmm the heat has little to do with the electric motors, and much more to do with Air Conditioned Subway cars. The heat in the cars has to go somewhere so it (and some energy involved in moving it) goes out into the tunnels and the stations. Suposedly before A/C the cars were hot but the stations were cool(as one would expect for what is bassicaly a basement.)
It is honestly the worst comecial I have seen in a long time. It reminds me of something from the seventies (though I wasn't alive then). I mean it can do some decent stuff, but at a minimum they should have had a celebrity voiceover (i.e. one of the actors)
Sonar is used all the time in small robots. Radar is fine for distances but it has limits on how close you can be to an object. Soanr travels slower and is better for such things. If you want to see sonar in action some of the autofocusing devices use sonar.
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Is it really?
I mean imagine this:
Voice: This is Allah.
Startled T: Huh (looks around)
Voice: No one else can here me but you. I have a task for you. Your commander is a traitor, you must kill him before tonight or many faithful will die.
Startled T: but...
Voice: Silence! Do it or you renounce me!
Startled T: ok
See? it can be used to play sick games. Ok maybe a bullet qould be cheaper, but inciting troops to comit fratricide is so much more interesting.
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Just dump it on an answering machine. Easy.
Honestly you suposedly need only the first tone, but...
I would assume that there are numbers on documentation, bills, etc. Of course some people might not think of that. Indeed some people might not think that thier MSN box did it when the cops say someone at the house was dialing 911, I wonder how many children are getting yelled at for this?
Silly there are no licensed image editors of JPegs, so therefore to actually use a jpeg would be to support the infringement of thier own patent. Lord knows they have no one who could actually implement the code.
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How would a 40 kg wolf take down a 1000 kg American Bison?
The answer is pack instinct and teeth. So perhaps the squids hunt in packs (which wouldn't be imposible), or perhaps they just attack weaker smaller, and possibly sickly whales.
Because it would have a range of about 30 feet? That is what bluetooth is for you know.
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While ICBMs are the ultimate weapon they can't take and hold ground. yes you can threaten planetary destruction but you'd have to control a lot of nukes before you could convince the government to give up the country. With an army (any army) you can take the land, and defend it.
Well the military has put destructive power in the hands of people before it used to be posible to launch the missiles off of a nuclear submarine on captain's orders.It is likely that drones will not be as tightly controlled as nuclear weapons ( do you want the president to expressly approve every time a drone launches a missile? ) Multiple command centers won't help, the problem is not telling the drones what to do, but telling them not to do it, obviusly the drones will have an extensible encryption model so codes can be changed as they are compromised. So how exactly will you tell them to stop what they are doing, a "stop" command is a huge liability if discovered by an enemy.
FYI, Asimov didn't invent Robot just the word robotics.
They were never really enforceable anyways, a silly toy of conjecture, but nothing that one could build a system out of. They are soft laws. Full of conflict. I mean a robot cleaning a bathroom is technically denying a job to a human, harming that human. They don't allow for ownership (i.e. a robot sentry could be ordered not to report an intruder). Yes I am aware Asimov tried to deal with these things, but to program a robot like that would restrict it too much.
I am far less worried about hacking then some people seem to be. What I am worried about is that they will obey commands. I mean what happens when say these are sent against Cuba, but the General/Admiral decides that he really want all of south florida to retire in, and captures it with his drone army. Normally it isn't possible becuase American troops are (suposed to be) loyal to thier country first and not thier officers, but now you are reducing the number of people needed to enable a coup or power grab. Less people is both easier, and more liekly to be sucessful.
Shortcut keys are not proper buttons, and this is a laptop so for much of the time an external mouse is not an option. This is a real and valid concern, and telling someone to "shut up" doesn't adress it in anyway. There are distinct advantages to productivity from using more buttons.
So yes it is a valid concern and yes you will almost certainly be clicking on the right side of the single mousebutton as long as you still use other systems. It is however liveable, at least in apps designed with one mouse button in mind.
Hmm Well there are first off all some serious screen redraw issues. Oh well. I am just uncertain what the advantage over Swing really is. The author mentions that it is easier to create XWT interfaces in XWT then in Swing but well with Borlands JBuilder is it really that hard?
I mean this does not seem like a bad idea. I hope it or something catches on because anything is better then long endless forms that are mangled to do things they were never intended to do.
The mail client is wonderful though. That alone makes it worth a bookmark.
From the article:
Let's hope that in setting the policies for its use, we keep in mind the key attribute of the woman embodied in the first Palladium. Athena was the goddess of wisdom.
Let us also not forget that Athena fought against the Trojans, so perhaps the statues of wisdom was on the Trojan side, but the incarnation of wisdom was on the greek side
An aside: Why does my sristwatch need security?
Well you wouldn't run it at even half that resolution. You are outputing to a tv not a high end monitor. So think 640x480.
Since it has an actual drive that you can remove and play with yeah it shouldn't be a problem. I like the idea of having upgradable storage, I'm never going to have that many MP3's to really use disks as swapouts